#ms

One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing. ↗

— David E. Kelley

#addressing #answer #attorneys #bat #defense

Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is! ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#bowels #does #eyes #god #head

What you do once you're beyond the confines of your local lift service can be as limitless as the mountains themselves. ↗

— Craig Kelly

#confines #lift #limitless #local #mountains

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#brain #cannot #kind #modules #network

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#each #environment #most #organism #organisms

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#environment #indistinguishable #itself #organism #sense

Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#add #capacities #downsize #fire #hire

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#future #most #organisms #organizations #past

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#actually #anticipating #because #evolution #future

A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick. ↗

— Moira Kelly

#few #films #graduation #i #months